Сири Хустведт

Литературная слава блистательной американки Сири Хустведт растет стремительно. Ее книги переведены на шестнадцать языков, выходят на нескольких континентах, литературоведы пристально следят за ее творчеством. Романистка, поэтесса, влиятельный эссеист, Сири Хустведт к тому же является женой и музой другого знаменитого прозаика, Пола Остера. «Печали американца» — захватывающий семейный роман, гд...

Iris Vegan, a young, impoverished graduate student from the Midwest, finds herself entangled with four powerful but threatening characters as she tries to adjust to life in New York City. Mr. Morning, an inscrutable urban recluse, employs Iris to tape-record verbal descriptions of objects that belonged to a murder victim. George, a photographer, takes an eerie portrait of Iris, which then acquires...

A compelling and radical collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from prize-winning novelist Siri Hustvedt, the acclaimed author of "The Blazing World" and "What I Loved." Siri Hustvedt has always been fascinated by biology and how human perception works. She is a lover of art, the humanities, and the sciences. She is a novelist and a feminist. Her lively...

The internationally acclaimed novelist Siri Hustvedt has also produced a growing body of nonfiction. She has published a book of essays on painting Mysteries of the Rectangle as well as an interdisciplinary investigation of a neurological disorder The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves. She has given lectures on artists and theories of art at the Prado, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New Y...

Sparkling essays on a variety of subjects--literature, art, popular culture, autobiography--by a renowned young American novelist. In her brilliant and daring novels The Blindfold and The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, Siri Hustvedt has won critical acclaim and a rapidly expanding international audience. But she is also a wide-ranging essayist and critic, frequently reexamining in her fascinating no...

The protagonist of Siri Hustvedt's astonishing second novel is a heroine of the old style: tough, beautiful, and brave. Standing at the threshold of adulthood, she enters a new world of erotic adventure, profound but unexpected friendship, and inexplicable, frightening acts of madness. Lily's story is also the story of a small town--Webster, Minnesota--where people are brought together b...

Сири Хустведт — одна из самых заметных фигур в современной американской литературе: романистка, поэтесса, влиятельный эссеист и литературовед, а кроме того — на протяжении без малого тридцати лет жена и муза другого известного прозаика, Пола Остера. "Что я любил" — третий и, по оценкам критики, наиболее совершенный из ее романов. Нью-йоркский профессор-искусствовед Лео Герцберг вспоминает свою жиз...

Artist Harriet Burden, consumed by fury at the lack of recognition she has received from the New York art establishment, embarks on an experiment: she hides her identity behind three male fronts who exhibit her work as their own. And yet, even after she has unmasked herself, there are those who refuse to believe she is the woman behind the men. Presented as a collection of texts compiled by a sc...

Cuando Boris Izcovich dijo la palabra «pausa», Mia Fredricksen, de cincuenta y cinco años, que llevaba casada treinta años con Boris, enloqueció. Porque lo que deseaba su marido era una pausa en su matrimonio, después de treinta años sin adulterios por parte de ninguna de las partes –aunque parezca increíble–, una hija encantadora que iniciaba su carrera de actriz y una relación entre ellos que ha...

"За гранью нервного срыва" - книга писательницы, поэтессы, эссеиста и литературоведа Сири Хустведт, одной из самых заметных фигур в современной американской литературе, а кроме того, уже без малого тридцать лет жены другого известного романиста - Пола Остера. Хустведт рассказывает о своем нервном расстройстве, которое началось в тот день, когда она произнесла речь в память об умершем отце, и длило...